But in that diagram the 'Overton Window' is moving up and down...
Please explain to someone not versed in many complicated psychological theories.
I guess I pulled it from Wikipedia and they want to avoid offending the Left so they made it talk about "more freedom
and "less freedom". But usually the Overton window refers to the Left-Right divide.
That said, I think the Left-Right divide is pretty flawed, I prefer the political triangle between freedom, order, and equity. To get more freedom, you have to give up a little order and equity and so on and so forth.
The Overton window is way on the equity region of the triangle because the Left values equity above the other two and the Right is split between Libertarians who value freedom, religious conservatives who value equity, and the authoritarian right who values Order.
In addition to the triangle, there is a quandrant theory with four quandrants where you have a Libertarian Right, Libertarian Left, Authoritarian Left, and Authoritarian Right.
The further you go left, the more socially liberal you are. The further you go right the more socially conservative you are.
The further you go down, the more people prefer smaller government, the further you go up, the more people prefer bigger government.
Of course, another theory is that 50-80% really don't care what kind of government they have and will go along with whatever those in power say. Only a minority of people are willing to fight or sacrifice for what they believe in, and this minority doesn't agree on what goals to fight for or what tactics to fight with, so these people are always duking it out while the masses blindly obey whoever is currently on top of the heap.
Unless submitting to the government is certain death, then the masses will fight for change, but only when the pain of inaction is greater than the pain of action.
The problem is the Libertarian Left is so small it barely exists at all so essentially if you plot real human beings political aspirations, it looks like a triangle.
